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Complicated time-dependent curved spacetime and electric field are involved in many astrophysical situations, including the early universe, Hawking radiation, the Schwinger effect, and gravitational pair production. In this Letter, a…

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The lack of energy conservation introduces new particle processes in curved spacetime that are forbidden in flat space. Therefore one has to be very cautious about using the results calculated in Minkowskian space in early universe…

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Gott spacetime has closed timelike curves, but no locally anomalous stress-energy. A complete orthonormal set of eigenfunctions of the wave operator is found in the special case of a spacetime in which the total deficit angle is $2\pi$. A…

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We study the gravitational wave memory effect in spacetimes related to flat space by a conformal transformation. The discussion is general but the gravitational wave length scale is assumed to be small compared with the background curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-11 Niko Jokela , K. Kajantie , Miika Sarkkinen

In massless scalar field cosmology, imposing the universe's physical volume as fundamentally discrete resolves the big bang singularity via a big bounce. We use quantum field theory on curved background to numerically track the number of…

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In this paper we recall the construction of scalar field action on $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time and investigate its properties. In particular we show how the co-product of $\kappa$-Poincar\'e algebra of symmetries arises from the analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Daszkiewicz , K. Imilkowska , J. Kowalski-Glikman , S. Nowak

We consider the possibility of a gravitationally induced particle production through the mechanism of a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling. An interesting feature of this gravitational theory is that the divergence of the energy-momentum…

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This paper explores the behavior of quantum particles in weak gravitational fields. We examine scalar and spinor particles, showing that these quantum particles in weak gravitational fields follow geodesic trajectories, aligning with…

General Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Benliang Li

In quantum field theory, particle creation occurs, in general, when an intense external field, such as an electromagnetic field, breaks time translational invariance. This leads to an ambiguity in the definition of the vacuum state. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-24 Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez , Luis J. Garay , David García-Heredia , Mercedes Martín-Benito

We present an effective field theory of multiparticle correlations based on analogy with Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. With the assumption that the field represents particle density fluctuations, and in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 I. Sarcevic , H. -Th. Elze

In this paper, we explore the particle creation scenario in the context of $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity in flat-FLRW metric. For this purpose, from the perspective of thermodynamics and considering an adiabatic universe, we obtain the modified…

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Based on the concept of curved spacetime in Einsteinian General Relativity, the field theories and their quantum theories in the curved octonion spaces etc are discussed. The research results discover the close relationships of the curved…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Zihua Weng

This thesis applies techniques from quantum field theory in curved spacetimes to study particle creation in external fields, focusing on the Schwinger effect (i.e., the production of particle-antiparticle pairs by intense electric fields).…

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We study particle production aspect in the flat FRW universe in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity. The matter is minimally coupled with the gravity and an exact power-law solution is obtained by solving the Friedmann equations, and matter is…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 M. R. Setare , M. J. S. Houndjo

When probed with conformally invariant matter fields, light cones in Minkowski spacetime satisfy thermodynamical relations which are the analog of those satisfied by stationary black holes coupled to standard matter fields. These properties…

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We derive curvature counterterms in two-dimensional gravity coupled to conformal matter up to infinite order. By construction the higher-order action is equivalent to a finite first-order theory with auxiliary scalar. Due to this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Thomas T. Burwick

Gravitation is described in the context of a dilatonic theory that is conformally related to general relativity. All dimensionless ratios of fundamental dimensional quantities, e.g. particle masses and the Planck mass, as well as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-21 Meir Shimon

Understanding real-time dynamics of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime remains a major theoretical challenge. We employ tensor network methods to study such dynamics using interacting scalar and gauge theories in 1+1 spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Evan Budd , Adrien Florio , David Frenklakh , Swagato Mukherjee

We present an effective field theory of multiparticle correlations based on analogy with Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. We assume that the field represents particle density fluctuations, and show that in the case of…

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